OREET ASHERY & ROBERTO FODDAI

Country:

Israel, UK / Italy, UK

About artist / group:

Oreet Ashery is a Jerusalem born, London based, interdisciplinary visual artist working across performance, photography, video, objects and writing. Ashery’s performative practice engages with socio-political paradigms and tends to include participatory and delegated elements. Ashery exhibits, performs, intervenes and screens her work extensively in an international context, including HKW in Berlin, Tate Modern, Brooklyn Museum, Akademie der Künste in Berlin, Swedish Academy of Art, Pompidou Centre, The Freud Museum in London, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, Kunstenbanken in Norway, OK Centre for Contemporary Art in Linz, Other Gallery in Shanghai and Beijing and EDS Gallery in Mexico.

Roberto Foddai is an artist from Sardinia. He graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti, Sassari in 1995 and works mainly in photography. Foddai’s work is story-based. With it he communicates about significant cultural and social issues while reflecting upon cinema, memory and nostalgia. The most recent exhibitions include: Lingering Whispers, Crypt of St Pancras Church, London, 2010; Crime & Punishment The Sequel, Kortil Gallery, Rijeka, and Dogma, HDLU, Zagreb, both in Croatia in 2009. He is currently working on photographs for a book by the British poet J. L. Nash. Foddai is based in London.